More than 550,000 tickets are available for the general public at Euro 2012. In 2008, 10.4 million people applied for the 300,000 on sale.

To be in with a chance this time, would-be buyers had the whole of March to sign up at a ticket portal on UEFA's website, and were limited to applying for four each.

UEFA has repeatedly underlined that it is the only authorised channel, and that other purported ticket sources could be fronts for rip-off merchants.

From April 19-22, a UEFA lottery will determine the lucky ticket applicants.

UEFA has said Euro 2012 ticket sales are set to generate 100 million euros.

The vast majority -- almost 88 percent -- of ticket applicants were from Poland and Ukraine, it noted Friday.

UEFA underlines that it has taken Poles' and Ukrainians' lower spending power into account.

The average monthly gross salary in Poland is around 800 euros ($1,128), and in Ukraine, just over 200 euros ($282). That compares with the equivalent of 4,000 euros ($5,642) in Switzerland and 2,000 euros ($2,821) in Austria.